February, 2025 Version of the Cable Car Home Page -- February 1, 2025

I just put the February 2024 version of my Cable Car Home Page on the server:

http://www.cable-car-guy.com/

It includes some new items:

1. Picture of the Month: The Citizens Railway helped sell real estate in new Saint Louis neighborhoods like Rappahannock Heights (source: Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, 30-April-1893). "Only 3 Blocks to the Grand Avenue Cable Railroad."
2. A ten-year update about the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Citizens Railway
3. On the Other California Cities page: A new article on the BART to OAK Connector, a cable-driven Automated People Mover
4. On the Who page: A new item about Frank Van Vleck, who was chief engineer of the Los Angeles Cable Railway and the San Diego Cable Railway
5. Added News and Chronology items about new Mayor Daniel Lurie and his family riding a cable car and a fare increase

Ten years ago this month (February 2015):

1. Picture of the Month: Jacob Volk's bottom grip, used on the Citizens Railway in Saint Louis. (Source: "The Volk Cable Grip and Carriage and Other Appliances", The Street Railway Journal, December, 1889.)
2. On the new Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Citizens Railway

Twenty years ago this month (February 2005):

1. Picture of the Month: Geary Street Park and Ocean steam train.
2. February 16 marks the 125th birthday of the Geary Street Park and Ocean Railway
3. Added "When Steam Ran on The Streets of San Francisco," a series of three articles by Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about steam street railway operations in San Francisco on the San Francisco page.
4. Added News and Bibliography items about the destruction by fire of a Baltimore cable car powerhouse and barn

In January 2024 I started on a long overdue process of cleaning things up on my site. I started with the development pages. Actually, I guess I started the year before with making most thumbnails 200 pixels instead of 100.

Coming in March 2025: On the Cable Car Lines in Saint Louis page: The Missouri Railroad

The Cable Car Home Page now has a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/CableCarHomePage/

The Cable Car Home Page also has an Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/cable_car_guy/

Joe Thompson
The Cable Car Home Page (updated 01-February-2025)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats (updated 31-October-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/
Park Trains and Tourist Trains (updated 31-December-2024)
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ptrain/
The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion (updated spasmodically)
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com
The Big V Riot Squad (updated obsessively)
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/